A workshop for photographers, models and performers.

Learn to work on both sides of the camera, to produce Photographic Art underwater and in natural environments.

We propose a unique workshop in which photography and body art performance go hand in hand in the creation of a unique and original synergetic experience. The focus is on perceptions, discovering new ways to live and feel photography, taking into account the connection and interaction with the Earth and Water elements.

A variety of body arts and disciplines connected with these elements will be explored to deepen the understanding of body and self. Participants will explore all the aspects and the roles involved in the creative process: photographers become performers and vice versa, overcoming the barrier between subject and object.

The categories of photographic work covered are: portraiture, nude photography, underwater photography, photo in movement, with focus on the perception, light composition and the human connection.

You will practice:

working with models, expression and pose, human and psychological approach, legal aspects.

working with natural light in different times of the day, environments and meteorological conditions.

underwater shooting techniques

This will be complemented by various disciplines with our professional teachers in different earth and water body expressions:

The photographic work will be done in natural environments of Earth and Water, with trained models and performers. Every day we will be visiting some of the best beaches (sand, rocks, cliffs, clay, turquoise waters) and few excursions in “secret spots” of the island.

There will be a first session in which Marco Ferraris will show his photographic work and video art, followed by sessions for reviewing and editing the material of each participant and the creation of a final projection with all the selected works.

Earth and Water:

creating in two parallel dimensions

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Information & Prices

Dates:

From Sunday 25th of September at 18h to Saturday 1st of October at 14h

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This workshop is for:

Anyone with an interest in photography and body art, willing to work also with their body in and out of water, with a desire to experiment a variety of creative states. No need to be a professional but there has to be a longing for Earth and Water worlds. This will be a small group of maximum 14 participants.

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Language spoken:

English, Spanish & Italian

Equipment requirements:

Please bring your own camera, and a portable computer. The technology used is not important since the focus of the photographic work is mostly on the experience of perception and new point of views. Any digital camera will do, and for underwater shooting cameras such as Olympus TG4 or Go Pro are good options.

Although it is not mandatory, we advise you to bring the usual material you like to work with: tripod, memory cards, water protection for the camera.

You should bring swimming gear and clothing in order to be at ease on the beach and in the water, and some shoes suitable for a half hour trek.

Wetsuits will be provided for Apnea classes, or you can also bring your own.

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Daily schedule:

Every day will start by going to a beach for approximately three hours in which we will explore different body art movement techniques integrating the work on earth and in water with photography.

We will have lunch some days in Casa Shakti and others we will do picnics in natural environments.

In the afternoon we will have sessions with models and performers in different environments.

Over 20 years of regular practice in different dance techniques. Dance background and experience cover various dance styles, from academic to subcultural (hip-hop, salsa, strip plastic, tango, etc.).

Participating in various international dance projects.

Over the last 10 years studying contact improvisation in different countries as well as exploring and practicing different approaches to movement such as authentic movement technique, axis syllabus system, release technique, body-mind centering, hatha yoga, acro-yoga, Laban movement analysis etc.

Organizer of Kyiv International Festival of Contact Improvisation in Ukraine during the years 2009-2014.

This is a great chance to get back into your body, to feel it, to release extra tension, to be able to hear it in a new way.

We will be coming back into our body by using a variety of tools, ideas and methods of Dance & Movement Practice:

release techniques

authentic movement

working with images

dance improvisation

Connecting our breath and movement, following the flow, allowing our body to be fluid and responsive will allow us to travel into depths of ourselves. Letting go of the old, learning something new, staying in the moment here and now.

Sveta Pashko

Dance & Movement Practice

Born in Belgium in an industrial region, soon after finishing university Gil decided to move out and live by the Mediterranean Sea. Particularly interested in the wonders of the blue, he started to discover an entire new world of perceptions under the water. Experimenting peaceful silence and weightlessness while diving into in the crystal clear waters of the island of Ibiza has leaded him to the art of Free-diving,

Gil has been trained by the Chief of Education of AIDA (www.aida.org) to become an international Free-diving instructor. Working as a tourist guide for the last ten years, he is now sharing his passion and love for the island and its underwater wonders.

Free-diving involves apnea, the art of holding our breath to connect with our inner selves. It takes the body and the mind into unexpected ways of breathing the wind of life.

During the workshop, we will work on both the physiological and mental aspects of breath holding, taking you step by step deeper and deeper into the art of perception, promoting the entire awareness of you senses.

Tho objective of the workshop is to discover an entire new world into yourself.

Gil Bianco

Introduction to Free-diving: Apnea and Breathing

After her studies of Psychology, in 2013 Agua Hara came into her life. The deep connection Susana felt with this technique since receiving her first session motivated her to learn it.

The same year she began her training in this water technique, and since then she has been traveling and going deeper into the world of aquatic body work, attending different courses, festivals and offering sessions in many countries (Mexico, Thailand, Bali, etc...).

In 2015 she obtained the certification for levels 1 and 2 as Agua Hara instructor.

In this journey Susana also started to explore the art of aquatic dance, which also became her passion.

She is enthusiastic about learning different from of dance and bringing them into the water. For her, this is not just another way of dancing, it is a never ending learning process about oneself: when you dance you are connecting with your true essence.

Dancing in the water is a journey into another dimension. The weightlessness, the waves of the sea, and the soft support change our own breath and our movements, as we reach a meditative state.

It is an improvised dance born from the connection with the water and its rhythm, where you surrender into its softness and its subtlety, where you learn to be guided by the water and to let go into the unknown.

In that state of presence, we will joyfully explore the solo, partner and group dances using techniques based on Contact Improvisation, Aguahara and Dolphin Dance.

The aquatic dance provides a unique space of body research, as it takes place in a multidimensional environment, where the possibilities of movement are endless and the freedom is total.

Either as dancers , photographers , performers or people who are simply attracted to the aquatic environment , this workshop will help us to connect with the water in a different way , opening our creativity into new scenes, dances, forms of expression and movement.

Susana Rodríguez

Water Dance and Movement

For me being alive is already the most fascinating art and creativity existing. I love to dedicate my heart and being into living my truth, being just simply myself! And share the magic of life, the mystery hides in everything and all of us....from that space I find my creativity, dance, music, improvisation! Because it is a straight transmission from whatever is inside of me manifesting itself through this.

Sandhya

Anita is here and now in Ibiza after ten years living as a nomad travelling around the world.

She loves to experiment awareness and energy through the body and elements.

From her circus life in the youth she has a special relationship with fire and she performs dance with fire tools creating a mystic ritual inside the fire circles.

From the connection with the Shakti (divine feminine) and womb energies she has a strong intimacy with Water like a mermaid enjoying water dance and giving water therapies.

She is on the path of Tantra and Yoga and everything is touched by magic, full of love energy.

Anita

Born in Barcelona in 1984, Victor moved permanently to Ibiza where he shows his series of driftwood sculptures in several island galleries.

He perfected his Didgeridoo skills over many years, participating in several electronic, tribal and dance music productions, also teaching classes for beginners.

With Capoeira, he learns to master the Berimbau, and assembles a personal collection of tribal instruments which he uses to to explore sounds in an intuitive fashion. Has appeared in advertising, films and as a photographic model since 2001.